Frequently Asked Questions

About the background pictures and animations

The background pictures of the cube and the original Würfel
mode animations were created by doj
with POV-Ray in early 1995. The
pictures were created in the POV-Ray scene description language by
hand written code. The animations were created with a Turbo
Pascal program which created a series of POV-Ray files with the
appropriate rotations, since those early versions of POV-Ray did not
feature any loop or function directives. Unfortunately those POV-Ray
and pascal sources have been lost.

Only the 240 color pictures which were shipped
with the MS-DOS versions of Cubic Player have been preserved.

The 4 original animations were created by
doj. The first and second were designed to be played consecutively,
their movements match. The fourth animation is supposed to loop
through the second half, thus giving the effect of endlessly traveling
through the tunnel/torus. This effect can not be done with animated
GIFs. The fifth animation was done by Felix Bohmann for later releases
of Open Cubic Player and features the doubled resolution.